Regulations Governing the Bureau of Pensions |
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90 days act of July act of March addresses of pensioners adjudicating division administer oaths advised agent or attorney alleged allowed appear applicant April 12 August 24 Board of Review bounty land Bureau of Pensions certificate charge chief clerk China relief expedition claim for annuity claim for increase claim for pension claimant Commissioner of Pensions death or divorce declaration Department deputy commissioner employee enlistment evidence examining surgeons face brief finance division furnished increase of pension inguinal hernia Interior invalid claims jacket less than 90 letter line of duty marriage medical examination medical referee Navy officer papers payment of pension pensionable service pensioner's person Philippine insurrection physician post-office addresses power of attorney prior proper prosecution receipt retirement act retirement division Secretary service in line showing shown special examination division sworn statement therein thereof thereto tion title 38 U. S. Code widow
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Page 71 - States, and periods of honorable service in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard of the United States...
Page 67 - ... totally disabled for useful and efficient service in the grade or class of position occupied by the employee, by reason of disease or injury not due to vicious habits, intemperance, or willful misconduct...
Page 62 - Pensions, by the pension agent making payment of the pension allowed, and any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this section, or who shall wrongfully withhold from a pensioner or claimant the whole or any part of a pension or claim allowed or due such pensioner or claimant under this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall, for each and every such offence, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned at hard labor not exceeding...
Page 37 - ... has abandoned the care of such child or children, or that she is an unsuitable person, by reason of immoral conduct, to have the custody of the same...
Page 17 - Loss of palm of hand, and all the fingers, the thumb remaining 17.
Page 17 - Double inguinal hernia, neither of which passes through the external ring 12. 00 Section 4699, Revised Statutes, provides that the rate of $18 per month may be proportionately divided...
Page 48 - March 3, 1899, shall hereafter be made by and through the disbursing clerk, and, in future, no payment shall be made to any of said beneficiaries by the treasurer of a national soldiers' home, except one-half of so much of the pensioner's pension as shall be in the hands of the treasurer of said home, and unexpended, at the date of filing the claim under said act, in which case the treasurer shall withhold and disburse upon the order of the Commissioner of Pensions.
Page 36 - ... of the War with Spain, the Philippine Insurrection, or the China Relief Expedition, and for other purposes'*.
Page 26 - States during the War with Spain, the Philippine Insurrection, and the China relief expedition...
Page 71 - States, may elect to surrender said benefits and to have the .service upon which they are based added to his period of civil service for the purpose of obtaining a greater benefit in the form of annuity. Should it appear upon the adjudication of a claim for annuity that the claimant will benefit by the inclusion of military or naval service, and the relinquishment of benefits based thereon, he shall be so advised and permitted to exercise the right of election.